I admire you guys. Your dedication is truly amazing. I could not do what you do.

No really, how the hell do you wait for so long to find groups? I had the urge to try out my shiny new Quel'Delar so instead of my usual tank/DPS checks, I picked only DPS. And then I waited. And waited.

After five minutes I decided to make a MC group because if it's going to take forever to form a group, I might as well get a shot at a worthless mace. An 80 rogue asked if he could come. And told me his gear score.

Yep, apparently MC has gear checks now. At level 80.

Then I queued for an instance as a tank and got in instantly. During the run someone went all glowy and light poured out and wtf was that? It was like when someone gains rep, but white instead of green. And why is that priest only 79? I know heroics are easy these days, but I didn't know sub-80s could get in.

Yep, turns out I'd done a random instance instead of heroic. Fastest UP run ever. At least I got a badge out of it.

@Stabs: You got them to move? They always dropped group when I tried that.

More seriously, I think everyone does something else when they're queued. The difference now is that doing something else will no longer mean wasting the group's time. I know that I'm much more willing to leave halfway through a quest if I get ported directly back rather than if I have to fly all over again.

it takes about 5 to 10 minutes to get a group as a dps on average, at least on my server. i you are looking for a specific instance, it might take a bit longer, unless that instance is one of the new ones. it is still loads better and faster then sitting in Dalaran, spamming trade chat with "dps looking for group any heroic" or putting yourself into queue and hoping to get an invite.

I've had days when I would be able to finish an entire set of dailies and farm a bit before getting invite (and I've had days when I would never get one so I'd just give up and log, becasue I hate just sitting there twidling my thumbs) and forget it if you play a DK or lesser degree a hunter.

In my personal experience healers and tanks were just as likely to sit there waiting for a summon as a dps :/

@Leah: I wasn't twiddling my thumbs in Dalaran, I was counting my epics. I've never really had trouble finding groups as a tank, just sometimes it would be a bit slow. So I'd get geared up faster, burn out, and have nothing else to do.

@Ateve: I would sometimes see people claim those groups are actually LFG, because the tank and healer are the group and the DPS are just addons.

@G-Rebel: I don't care about gear score. Unless you're really bad like this DK I ran into. He claimed it was okay because he had a bunch of 245 geared 80s. I'm not sure how that made his alt less terrible.